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Trendeo R&D investments worldwide, may 2018

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R&D
January 2016 - April 2018
418 projects announced
37 billion dollars
134 541 jobs
The Industries & Strategies database, created and distributed by Trendeo, tracks, since 2016, every
industrial investment (manufacturing, energy, logistics, R&D) announced worldwide (over 30
MUSD or 50 jobs). Each information is classified by product, sector, company, country, even a
qualitative score (factories of the future score). Since january 2016, 8 973 investments have been
tracked, among them 418 for R&D projects (4,7%). As the database is updated weekly, our users
benefit from a more detailed information, including cancelled investments, factories of the future
score details, capacity…

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Top projects
The following table lists the ten biggest investments announced since january 2016 (we recorded
in our database some projects that had been announced before but were discussed again since
January 2016). Those ten investments represent 53% of the total amount invested through the 418
projects tracked by Trendeo.
Description M$
LG is investing 3,5 bn USD to set up a new R&D cluster ("LG Science Park"), consisting of 18
R&D centres in various domains for electronics, near Seoul (South Korea).
3 541
Semiconductor chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) is planning to
invest more than 3,4 bn USD to set up a new R&D facility in Hsinchu (Taiwan).
3 411
Toyota Motor is going to invest more than 2,8 bn USD to set up a new R&D hub, including
test tracks, for electric vehicles near Nagoya, Aichi (Japan).
2 811
UK-based vacuum maker Dyson plans to invest 2.5 bn USD to develop and build its own
electric car by 2020 in a new facility at Hullavington, Wiltshire (United Kingdom), that will
eventually double the company’s 4,000 staff in the UK.
2 500
Swedish and Danish governments, along with EU and other European countries, are
investing 2 bn USD in the research facility European Spallation Source at Lund (Sweden).
2 055
Taiwanese company HTC is partnered with the Shenzhen government to establish a 1,45
bn USD investment fund and set up a virtual reality R&D center in Shenzhen (China).
1 450
German pharmaceutical giant Merck is planning to invest around 1,3 bn USD to set up a
new drug discovery facility near London (United Kingdom).
1 347
The Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has recently opened a 1 bn USD new research
centre for drug development at Shanghai (China).
1 000
The Japanese Hitachi invested 934 million USD in a new R & D center for the Internet of
Things in Santa Clara (USA).
934
Taiwan's electronics contractor Foxconn plans to invest 717 MUSD to set up a new R&D
centre for terminal devices and smartwear in Nanjing, Jiangsu (China).
717
GlaxoSmithKline, along with U.S. partner Verily (a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet),
is investing 712 MUSD in a new bioelectronic medicine research facility at Stevenage (UK).
712
Swedish Research Council and Lund University have recently inaugurated one of the most
advanced synchrotron X-ray light facilities in the world at Lund (Sweden).
711
U.S. company GE Oil & Gas is planning to invest 600 MUSD in a new centre of global
excellence near Florence (Italy) for the oil and gas sector, which would create 500 new,
skilled jobs.
600
South Korea's Samsung Electronics has invested 600 MUSD to set up a new R&D centre
near Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), creating 400 jobs.
600
UK electrical equipment company Dyson will open a new technology centre in Singapore
(Singapore) for 561 MUSD of investments.
561

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Qualitative scores
Our factories of the future score aggregates six components defined with our partners1
:
- Flexibility: the ability to switch from a product to another, enabling made-to-order
manufacturing,
- Digitalization: the introduction of technologies such as IoT, robotics, automation,
- Energy efficiency: every measure taken to lower energy consumption compared with usual
norms,
- Social efforts: measures undertaken for operations, through working conditions, health and
safety concern, training, education and wages…,
- Territorial efforts: decisions aiming at improving the relations between a production site and
local communities and stakeholders, such as favoring local suppliers, funding schools,
contributing to local social projects…,
- Environmental efforts: reducing carbon footprint and pollution, water preservation…
Each criterion is ranked 0 (no mention in the news describing the investment), 1 (some measures
described) or 2 (quantitative objectives defined for the criterion considered or insistence on it).
Adding those 0-2 scores over six criteria gives a total Industry of the Future score which varies
from 0 to 12.
There are, listed in the following table, the 9 projects with a score of 6 or more. The average score
of an R&D investment is 0,89, lower than the average global score (1,03). In fact R&D projects
have lower scores for their energy efficiency measures (but they probably are less energy intensive
projects) and for their environmental efforts (but they also are probably less pollutant emiting than,
say, manufacturing projects). The only criteria where R&D projects have higher than average scores
are social efforts and digitization.
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Project Jobs M$ Efficiency Flexibility Digitization
Social
Efforts
Environmental
Efforts
Territorial
Efforts
Score
Germany's BASF has invested 53 MUSD to set up a new global R&D
centre for agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and crop protection
research in Mumbai (India), where up to 300 scientists would be able
to work.
300 53 2 2 1 1 2 1 9
Hospital and research institute Seattle Children's is investing more
than 300 MUSD to set up new immunotherapy R&D facilities ("Building
Cure") at its research campus in Seattle, Washington (United States).
- 300 1 2 2 1 1 2 9
GEPower is investing 400 MUSD in a new research centre, its first "
Advanced Manufacturing Works"facility, to develop advanced
manufacturing technology for the company’s energy businesses, at
Greenville (United States), which would create 80 new jobs.
80 400 2 - 2 - 2 2 8
U.S. company Intel is investing 171 MUSD to set up a new high-tech
design house in Bengaluru (India), which would create 3 000 jobs.
3 000 171 1 1 2 - 2 2 8
LG is investing 3,5 bn USD to set up a new R&D cluster ("LG Science
Park"), consisting of18 R&D centres in various domains for electronics,
near Seoul (South Korea).
- 3 541 2 2 1 - 2 - 7
India's software major Infosys would create 1 000 jobs, planning to
invest 21 MUSD to set up a new technology and innovation hub in
Hartford, Connecticut (United States).
1 000 21 - 1 2 2 - 2 7
EMD Serono has announced 12 MUSD investment to add extensions to
its R & D center in Billerica near Boston (USA), and for 120 additional
researchers.
- 12 2 - 1 2 2 - 7
Indian company Tata Motors, along with British partners, is building
the largest automotive research centre ofits kind in Europe, the
National Automotive Innovation Centre, at Coventry (UK) for an
investment of201 MUSD.
1 060 201 2 - 2 - 2 1 7
French utility company Suezis setting up a new laboratory for
research, development, and testing ofspecialty chemicals and
chemical processes in Tomball, Texas (United States).
85 - - 2 1 2 1 - 6

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Detailed Sample
Each operation is described on a dedicated page in the database, including information such as
production capacity.

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Contact
This document is a short synthesis of the data available in the Industries & Strategies database about R&D
investments. You can learn much more about this database by contacting Trendeo:
contact@trendeo.net / +33(0)1 42 79 51 26
or david.cousquer@trendeo.net
Sponsors
The Industries & Strategies database has been made possible by our sponsors: Fives, the Institut de la
Réindustrialisation, EDF and Defi&Co (Programme d’investissement d’avenir (PIA), managed by Caisse des Dépôts et
Consignations).
PIA DEFI&Co:
Fives, an industrial engineering Group,
designs and supplies machines, process
equipment and production lines for the
world’s largest industrial groups including
the aluminium, steel, glass, automotive,
aerospace, logistics, cement and energy
sectors.
The Institut de la réindustrialisation is a French
think tank aiming at promoting the role
and importance of industry in the French
economy. Two engineering schools are its
main members.
A global leader in low-carbon energy,
the EDF Group covers every sector of
expertise, from generation to trading
and transmission grids.